Selected Quotes by Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks- Stephanie Lynn Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and producer. She is known for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist.
She initially started her career in a duo together with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham. However their duo only found little success. She then joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975. The band to became one of the best-selling music acts of all time with over 120 million records sold worldwide.
Rumours, the band' second album, became one of the best-selling albums worldwide, being certified 20× platinum in the US.
In 1981, while still a member of Fleetwood Mac, she began her solo career. She released the studio album Bella Donna. It topped the Billboard 200 and has reached multiplatinum status. She has released eight studio solo albums and seven studio albums with Fleetwood Mac, selling a certified total of 65 million copies in the US alone.
Quotes by Stevie Nicks:
“She is like a cat in the dark and then she is the darkness.”
Stevie Nicks, Sex
“It was hard when you practice that hard and you sound that good and everybody tells you that you should be doing something else... You want to say, ‘Obviously we’re not from the same planet’... Lindsey and I just couldn’t understand how we could sing a beautiful song and nobody liked it. It was like, ‘We don’t belong here, nobody understands us.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“Don’t Listen To Her, Listen Through Her.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“I’ve never been to a strip club but I turn on MTV and see in every single video what it must look like... if you have to work so hard at appearing sexy, then perhaps you weren’t that sexy after all, perhaps your music has no sensuality, perhaps your music is dull, indeed, that you have no choice but to pelvic thrust your way through a pop video in a leather bikini in order to detract from its mediocrity... it might be advisable to do something else.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“What has Rock and Roll ever done for us? Everything.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“Right now I’m not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.”
Stevie Nicks, Love, Time
“By the time I was five, I was a little diva.”
Stevie Nicks, Time, Success
“If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you’re behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don’t really perform because you can’t. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“Most bands people have side projects and it’s not considered a death threat as it was say, with The Beatles.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“I didn’t want to look like anyone else – like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That’s why I never went to any of the big designers.”
Stevie Nicks, Success, Goals
“I watched Janis one time – we opened for her – and that’s the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“I don’t love the years going by. I’d just as soon stay forty-five. But it’s OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Time
“I don’t really like to be filmed.”
Stevie Nicks, Success
“That’s not going to happen, because I don’t want it to happen. I don’t want a movie about me until I’m very, very old – when I’m very, very old, everybody that wants to play me will be middle-aged.”
Stevie Nicks, Success
“It’s really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you’re in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person.”
Stevie Nicks, Love, Life, Music
“If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don’t make it a rock star.”
Stevie Nicks, Love, Life, Music
“There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can’t be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can’t write.”
Stevie Nicks, Art
“I wouldn’t like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.”
Stevie Nicks, Art
“Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don’t want to go to PTA meetings.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Goals
“I’m doing lots of interviews and stuff. I’m longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio.”
Stevie Nicks, Success
“The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.”
Stevie Nicks, Art
“Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn’t go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That’s why I’m who I am today, because I didn’t leave. And I think I made the right choice.”
Stevie Nicks, Art
“I had Botox and I hated it. For four long months, I looked like a different person.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“Rock and menopause do not mix.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Music
“I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals, Music
“We don’t need to have somebody that’s gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It’s like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love.”
Stevie Nicks, Love
“When you’re rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I’ve talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do.”
Stevie Nicks, Wealth, Success, Love
“But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn’t have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman.”
Stevie Nicks, Happiness
“The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time.”
Stevie Nicks, Art, Happiness
“Stop dragging my heart around.”
Stevie Nicks, Love
“If you’re an unattractive girl who’s trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you are a beautiful girl who’s trying to be beautiful with Botox, you will look like you’re angry all the time.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.”
Stevie Nicks, Sex
“The people that can’t sing anymore that had great voices are the people that went away for five years and then just decided to come back. And you just can’t make a comeback. Comebacks are no good. You have to just keep singing. Or keep dancing.”
Stevie Nicks, Art
“Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Music, Goals
“For 70 nights, right across America, I’ve been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we’ve been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn’t know. We’re friends now but we can’t forget what happened between us.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Music, Friendship
“The female rock-‘n’-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it’s women like her who are going to save the music business.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“Men are going to go out on the road and they’re going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don’t.”
Stevie Nicks, Music, Love
“I want to be age appropriate. I don’t want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals, Sex
“My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don’t need the money, but there’s an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There’s a love there; we’re a band of brothers.”
Stevie Nicks, Wealth, Love
“We fought very hard for feminism, for women’s rights. What I’m seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don’t know why, but I see women being put back in the place. And I hate it. We’re losing all we worked so hard for and it really bums me out.”
Stevie Nicks, Sex
“I sketch the faces upside down because it’s like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of the brain. I never took an art lesson in my life.”
Stevie Nicks, Art
“I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn’t want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals
“I saw her do ‘Different Drum’ and thought, that’s what I’m gonna do. I don’t look that good in cut-offs, but that’s what I’m gonna do.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals
“It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals
“If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?”
Stevie Nicks, Courage
“I’ve seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time.”
Stevie Nicks, Music
“I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don’t handle fear very well; I’m not a good terrified person.”
Stevie Nicks, Courage
“I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, ‘Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?’”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“I’m obsessed with lighting. I’m constantly shopping for different lightbulbs. I love rainbow lightbulbs. And also, one should not live without dimmers. Life is all about lighting.”
Stevie Nicks, Happiness
“I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I’m really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I’m totally sexy.”
Stevie Nicks, Sex
“I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I’ll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“I’ve laid down with love and woke up with lies. What’s it all, worth only the heart can measure.”
Stevie Nicks, Love, Truth
“Most women would not be happy being me. People say, ‘But you’re alone.’ But I don’t feel alone. I feel very un-alone.”
Stevie Nicks, Happiness
“And the moon never beams without bringing me dreams And the sun never shines, but I see the bright eyes I lie down by the side of my darling my life, my life...”
Stevie Nicks, Love
“Don’t be lady. Be a legend.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals
“Love is only one fine star away.”
Stevie Nicks, Love
“Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn’t handle people talking about how fat I was.”
Stevie Nicks, Music, Love
“You don’t need help to write a song. You just need to get over this experience that bummed you out so bad. The relationship you were in is over, it was over a long time ago, and you need to move on.”
Stevie Nicks, Music, Love
“I love leather and I love lace, but not necessarily together. I’m probably happiest in a long black velvet dress, black suede boots, and some kind of really beautiful wrap than I am in anything else. I don’t even own a pair of jeans.”
Stevie Nicks, Happiness
“I’m going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I’m going to write the songs that people can’t write for themselves.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals
“I’m timeless, I got that Dickensian, London street-urchin look in high school. I’ll never be in style, but I’ll always be different.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“As a member of Fleetwood Mac, for two weeks I was still working at the restaurant because I’d given them notice. I didn’t just want to walk in there and say, “‘I’m going to be a famous rock star so I quit and I never liked your food anyway”.”
Stevie Nicks, Work
“I believe that there is a certain amount of mysticism that all women should have, that you should never tell all your secrets, that you should never tell everybody all about you.”
Stevie Nicks, Secrets
“If you can find a passion at a young age, somewhere between fifteen and thirty, if you can find that passion, I can pretty much guarantee you that you can be sixty-five and still love that passion and still have a reason to dance out of bed and down the hall every morning.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals
“In comparison to the eight years I spent on Klonopin, the cocaine and brandy wins hands down. If you are ever in a drugstore and they put you on Klonopin, run out of there screaming.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“Love is only one fine star away, even though the living is sometimes laced with lies.”
Stevie Nicks, Love, Truth
“You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I’m older and wiser and I think I’d make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.”
Stevie Nicks, Love
“I totally believe in magic. Because my life, I think, has been very magic, and magical things have come true for me time after time after time.”
Stevie Nicks, Belief
Klonopin – more deadly than coke.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“Klonopin is a horrible, dangerous drug.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“My life is a testament to believing that if you want something you can make it happen.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Goals
“When you’re hurt or angry, let go by tapping into your humbleness. You want people to remember you for your grace.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Anger and Fighting
“I’m not a witch, I just like Halloween, and I thought that blondes look skinnier in black.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“Love is a word that some entertain. If you find it you have won the game.”
Stevie Nicks, Love
“Time cast a spell on you but you won’t forget me, I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me. I’ll follow you down ’til the sound of my voice will haunt you, you’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you.”
Stevie Nicks, Love, Time
“If I had my life to live over, I would never dream.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Goals
“When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.”
Stevie Nicks, Sex
“The loneliness of a one night stand is hard to take.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“Thunder only happens when it’s raining...”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“I’m going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I’m 75 – and that’s just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn’t get tangled in my rocking chair.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals
“A wound gets worse when it’s treated with neglect.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“And I knew then, as I know now, that I still have so much to do.”
Stevie Nicks, Intelligence/Wisdom
“You live by the light of the moon, and I live by desire.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.”
Stevie Nicks, Time, Intelligence/Wisdom, Freedom
“If the sun warms up the rain, and the rain puts out the sun. Why does the greatest love become the greatest pain?”
Stevie Nicks, Love
“Time makes you bolder, children get older. I’m getting older, too.”
Stevie Nicks, Time, Courage, Life
“She is like a cat in the dark And then she is the darkness She rules her life like a fine skylark And when the sky is starless. All your life you’ve never seen a woman taken by the wind would you stay if she promised you heaven? Will you ever win?
Stevie Nicks, Sex, Life
“I do not walk away in the face of adversity and never have.”
Stevie Nicks, Problems, Goals
“I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Strength
“Your graciousness is what carries you. It isn’t how old you are, how young you are, how beautiful you are, or how short your skirt is. What it is, is what comes out of your heart. If you are gracious, you have won the game.”
Stevie Nicks, Kindness
“I have no fear, I have only love.”